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Challenger achievement in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Xbox 360)

Challenger

Complete level 1 of all challenges with a single character.

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  • vSullyvSully
    21 Oct 2014 21 Oct 2014 03 Nov 2014
    This achievement requires completing at least level 1 of each challenge with one character (location-specific challenges are not needed). Many will come through the course of normal play while some will require that you do certain things you may not have done as you played through the game.

    If you want to reduce the amount of effort needed, I suggest using each weapon type for at least a little while as you play through the game to work towards many of these challenges.

    To view your challenges, press cn_back and use cn_RB to scroll the menu to "Badass Rank."

    Not all challenges are available immediately. The following challenges are listed as (undiscovered) initially and only become available after meeting certain requirements in other challenges:

    Enemies: The One That Says B.A.M.F.
    Vehicle: All are (undiscovered) likely until you get access to a vehicle
    Health and Recovery: Soup's Up, Had a Bit of a Shocker, The Phoenix, Rollin' the Ice
    Rocket Launcher: Missile Magnet, Punker Buster, Hand of God, Collateral Damage
    Sniper Rifle: Critical Reception, Penetrating Wound, Melon Splitter, Ol' Skool
    Assault Rifle: Hot Lead Injection, Crouch Potato
    Laser: Light 'Em Up
    SMG: Dinky Death Dealer
    Shotgun: Take It All, Overachiever, Shotty Workmanship
    Pistol: Gunslinger, Magnum Maestro
    Melee: Captain Cutty

    Only two of these challenges took me any effort to "discover" as they required level 5 completion in another challenge: Overachiever became "discovered" after I got 750 point blank shotgun kills (level 5 in Take It All) and Missile Magnet became "discovered" after I got 200 splash damage rocket launcher kills (level 5 in Collateral Damage). I ended up grinding these two challenges in the first half of the Titan Industrial Facility where a lot of torks spawn. I suggest trying to focus on point-blank shotgun kills as you play through the game so you won't have to grind so many.

    Conveniently, after I reached level 5 in Take It All and Collateral Damage, the newly "discovered" challenges had their progress retroactively updated so I didn't even have to work on them- they were already completed to level 1 or higher!

    The rest of the initially (undiscovered) challenges became available for me through normal play without needing level 5 completion in something else. I don't have any other weapon challenges completed to level 5 so they may require completing another related challenge to level 1 or 2.

    Most of the challenges are self-explanatory. Here is the list of level 1 requirement for each:

    Low Gravity
    Slampage!: Kill 5 enemies with slam attacks
    Dragon Punch: Deal 5000 melee damage while in the air
    Eagle Eye: Get 50 critical hits while in the air
    Death from Above: Kill 50 enemies wile in the air
    Roget Slamjet: Deal 2000 damage with slam attacks
    Boosted: Perform 50 air boosts

    Grinder
    Master Chef: Discover 2 grinder recipes
    Greater Than the Sum of its Parts: Obtain 20 Luneshine weapons from the Grinder
    The Daily Grind: Perform 50 standard grinds
    This Time for Sure: Perform 10 Moonstone grinds

    Enemies
    Aim for the Little Ones: Kill 10 Opha's spawned Putti
    Pest Control: Kill 25 torks
    Takin' Out the Trash: Kill 5 tork badasses
    That Was Unpleasant: Kill 25 shugguraths
    Space Dead: Kill 25 scav outlaws
    Die, Moon Jerks: Kill 75 scavs
    It Wasn't Yours, Anyway: Kill 1 scav jet fighter
    The One That Says B.A.M.F: Kill 10 scav badasses
    Exterminator: Kill 25 rathyds
    Gift That Keeps Giving: Kill 1 Swagman
    Big Game Hunt: Kill 25 kraggons
    Slayer of Titans: Kill 1 kraggon badass
    Dose of Death: Kill 10 enemies infected with space hurps
    Not So Tough Now: Kill 25 Eridian Guardians
    More Where That Came From: Kill 2 Eridian Guardian bosses
    No Suit For You!: Kill 10 Lost Legion powersuits
    Get Some!: Kill 50 Lost Legion Infantry
    Crash & Burn: Destroy 1 Lost Legion jet fighter
    Kiss My Badass: Kill 5 Lost Legion badasses

    Elemental
    Some Like it Hot: Deal 5000 damage with incendiary DoT effects
    Watt's Up?: Deal 5000 damage with shock DoT effects
    Frost Bite: Deal 5000 damage with cryo DoT effects
    Out with a Bang: Kill 20 enemies with explosive damage
    Toxic Takedown: Kill 20 enemies with corrosive damage
    Way of the Enkindling: Light 25 enemies on fire
    Chemical Burn: Deal 2500 damage with corrosive DoT effects

    Loot
    Aaaaaand OPEN!: Open 10 treasure chests
    Rare as Rocking Horse...: Loot or purchase 5 blue items
    A Chunk of Purest Green: Loot or purchase 25 green items
    Day for Every Occasion: Pick up or purchase 10 weapons
    Scrounging Around: Open 50 lootable crates, lockers, and other objects
    Purple Haze: Loot or purchase 3 purple items
    The Happiest Color: Loot or purchase 1 orange item
    Junkyard Dog: Loot or purchase 50 white items

    Money and Trading
    Impulse Shopper: Buy 1 Item of the Day
    Pawn Broker: Sell 50 items to vending machines
    Mr. Money Pits: Collect 5000 dollars from cash drops
    Mom Would Be Proud: Save 10000 dollars
    Trade Negotiations: Trade 1 time with another player
    Over the Moon: Purchase 25 items with Moonstones

    Vehicle
    Fender Bender: Kill 5 enemies by ramming them with a vehicle
    Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Kill 10 enemies with a turret or vehicle-mounted weapon
    Splat 'n' Slide: Kill 1 enemy by power-sliding over it in a vehicle
    Road Warrior: Kill 5 enemies while in a vehicle
    Pancakes for Breakfast: Kill 1 enemy with a Stingray slam

    Health and Recovery
    Soup's Up: Get 1 second wind by killing an enemy with a corrosive DoT
    Had a Bit of a Shocker: Get 1 second wind by killing an enemy with a shock DoT
    There Can Be Only... Me: Get 1 second wind by killing a badass enemy
    Doctor Feels Good: Recover 1000 health
    Better You Than Me: Get 10 second winds by killing an ememy
    Up Unt at Zem: Revive a co-op partner 5 times
    The Phoenix: Get 1 second wind by killing an enemy with a burn DoT
    Rollin' the Ice: Get 1 second wind by shattering a frozen enemy

    Grenades
    Big MIRV: Kill 10 enemies with MIRV grenades
    Sprayowee: Kill 25 enemies with Area-of-Effect grenades
    Home Nade Cookin': Kill 10 enemies with grenades
    Betty Boom: Kill 10 enemies with Bouncing Betty grenades
    Pass the Chianti: Kill 10 enemies with Transfusion grenades
    See Ya on the Other Side: Kill 10 enemies with singularity grenades

    Shields
    Nova Say Die: Kill 5 enemies with a Nova shield
    Amplitude Killuation: Kill 5 enemies while buffed by an Amplify shield
    That'll Learn Ya: Kill 5 enemies with reflected damage from a Spike Shield
    Wet Work: Kill 5 enemies while buffed by a Maylay shield
    Ammo Eater: Absorb enemy ammo 20 times with an Absorption shield

    Rocket Launcher
    Missile Magnet: Kill 5 enemies with direct hits from rocket launchers
    Punker Buster: Kill 5 shielded enemies with one rocket each
    Get a Rocket Up Ya: Kill 10 enemies with rocket launchers
    Hand of God: Kill 25 enemies from long range with rocket launchers
    Magic Missile: Get 2 second winds with rocket launchers
    Collateral Damage: Kill 5 enemies with rocket launcher splash damage
    Note: You must complete level 5 in Collateral Damage to "discover" Missile Magnet!

    Sniper Rifle
    Critical Reception: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using sniper rifles
    Windage Adjustment: Get 2 second winds with sniper rifles
    Sharp Shooter: Kill 20 enemies with sniper rifles
    Penetrating Wound: Kill 5 shielded enemies with one shot using sniper rifles
    Melon Splitter: Get 25 critical hits with sniper rifles
    Ol' Skool: Kill 5 enemies with sniper rifles without using the scope/ironsights
    Clean and Simple: Kill 5 unaware enemies with sniper rifles

    Assault Rifle
    Assault with a Deadly Weapon: Kill 25 enemies with assault rifles
    Assaulty Dog: Get 5 second winds with assault rifles
    Hot Lead Injection: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using assault rifles
    Crouch Potato: Kill 25 enemies with assault rifles while crouched
    Aim to Please: Get 25 critical hits with assault rifles

    Laser
    Battle Star: Kill 10 flying enemies with laser weapons while in the air
    Aggressive Lasik: Get 25 critical hits with lasers
    Light 'em Up: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using laser weapons
    I See the Light: Get 2 second winds with laser weapons
    Pew Pew: Kill 25 enemies with laser weapons

    SMG
    Bring the Pain: Get 25 critical hits with SMGs
    Dinky Death Dealer: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using SMGs
    And Stay Down!: Get 2 second winds with SMGs
    Nice Spray Job: Kill 25 enemies with SMGs

    Shotgun
    Shotgunning the Breeze: Get 2 second winds with shotguns
    Hello Uncle Buckshot: Get 50 critical hits with shotguns
    Take It All: Kill 10 enemies from point-blank range with shotguns
    NOTE: You must complete level 5 in Take It All to "discover" Over Achiever!
    Boomstick Boogie: Kill 25 enemies with shotguns
    Over Achiever: Kill 10 enemies from long range with shotguns
    Shotty Workmanship: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using shotguns

    Pistol
    Trigger Happy: Kill 25 enemies with pistols
    Pistoleer: Get 25 critical hits with pistols
    Magnum Maestro: Kill 10 enemies with critical hits using pistols
    Gunslinger: Kill 10 enemies shortly after entering ironsights with a pistol
    Pistol Whipped: Get 2 second winds with pistols

    Melee
    Martial Marshal: Kill 25 enemies with melee attacks
    Captain Cutty: Kill 20 enemies with melee attacks using bladed guns

    General Combat
    Projectile Proliferation: Fire 5000 rounds
    Barrel of Laughs: Kill 10 enemies with stationary barrels
    One Man's Trash: Deal 5000 damage with Tediore reloads
    Throw Me the Money: Kill 5 enemies with Tediore reloads
    Comet Crash: Shatter 5 frozen enemies with falling damage
    Ice to Meet You: Shatter 20 frozen enemies with weapons
    Last Gasp: Kill 10 enemies by asphyxiation
    Day of the Dead: Kill 250 enemies during the day
    Executioner: Kill 20 enemies with critical hits
    Action Hero: Kill 25 enemies using your Action Skill
    Having Trouble Breathing?: Shatter 25 enemy oxygen masks
    Dark Sider: Kill 25 enemies at night

    Miscellaneous
    Little on the Side: Complete 10 side missions
    The Duelist: Win 1 duel
    OC/DC: Complete 5 optional mission objectives
    We Have a Contender: Complete 5 challenges

    Specific advice

    For Grinders: I found these to be the most annoying challenges to complete. You need tons of white, green, and blue weapons to grind. You also need tons of Moonstones for Moonstone grinds and to help get Luneshine weapons.

    I ended up exploiting a glitch and the save system to get enough resources to complete these challenges.

    See my Lunar Looter solution for a glitch to get infinite Moonstones:
    Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Xbox 360)Lunar LooterThe Lunar Looter achievement in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (Xbox 360) worth 56 pointsLoot 10 Moonstone Chests.

    For getting enough weapons, I first collected four grindable sets. I had three blue pistols, three green pistols, three green lasers, and three white lasers. I gave these 12 weapons to a level 1 character on a second profile. I then copied that character from my HDD to a memory unit and to a USB flash drive. Next, I'd load a split screen game with my main character and one of the copies of the character from the second profile. I'd drop all the weapons, then bring in the other copied character and drop the weapons again. I'd then grind all those weapons with my main character. Then I'd dashboard, re-copy the character from the HDD to the memory units, and repeat the process. It was a little time consuming but the quickest method I could come up with. I probably could have sped up the process if I got some moonstones on the second profile character to expand his backpack so that he could hold more than 12 weapons.

    For Vehicles:
    Splat 'n' Slide: Kill 1 enemy by power-sliding over it in a vehicle
    -This one was annoying. You power-slide in a vehicle with RB. You have to be moving somewhat sideways as you run over the enemy for it to count.

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    mfeforeverThe Splat 'n' Slide challenge becomes fairly simple to do while turning in a reverse circle and power sliding. Hope this helps.
    Posted by mfeforever on 09 Jul 16 at 18:44
    xTSMxRKOAnyone know a good spot for "Take It All" after you've got all the side missions done?
    Posted by xTSMxRKO on 09 Feb 17 at 00:51
    WEB 78O^ I used a room in Research and Development that usually has a Tork Queen in it. There is a center wall that can be used to run around and avoid her for hours and she keeps hatching Tork Spawnlings that you can shotgun at pointblank for Take It All. I killed hundreds of little Torks in that room. Good for getting splash damage with the rocket launcher too..
    Posted by WEB 78O on 15 Aug 17 at 14:45
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  • CrystalDragon90CrystalDragon90
    04 Nov 2014 04 Nov 2014
    For anyone looking for an easier way to complete "Greater Than the Sum of its Parts" a good way is to use a second profile on your console and add a new character into the game then making sure to avoid save points drop your starting weapon and then log the second profile out. Then rejoin the game and you will still have your weapon in your inventory and on the ground effectively duplicating the weapon do this enough and you can get as many weapons as you need and the best part is you can moonstone grind them for the price of ZERO moonstone
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    Sefton85As of April 09, 2016 I can confirm this method still works. Main character on normal playthrough. Great Solution!!
    Posted by Sefton85 on 09 Apr 16 at 13:05
    confirmed working as of 12/3/16
    Posted on 03 Dec 16 at 23:56
    Law ViolationAs of 24.01.18 - this still works!

    You can also do this with a friend.

    Great solution - hell of a grind without it!
    Posted by Law Violation on 25 Jan 18 at 10:26
  • rob25Xrob25X
    04 Mar 2018 04 Mar 2018
    This is my solution for 'Grinder' challenges

    For guns - Fast travel to Serenity's Waste, spawn a vehicle and turn right (heading north east) to a small building with a radar on the roof and a single chest at the back of it. Open the chest - if weapons spawn take them then save and quit. If shields or mods spawn just save and quit and try again. Repeat this your until inventory is full of the low level weapons.

    For moonstones - For moonstones fast travel to Titan Industrial Facility. Proceed through the first two or three areas killing enemies, collect any moonstones along the way. Save and quit then reload and repeat until you have enough moonstones (80 minimum required for 20 luneshine weapons).

    Grinding Challenges

    For standard grinds, simply put all your collected weapons of the same colour into the machine.

    For the 20 luneshine weapons put the 3 weapons into the machine and pay the $4 in moonshines. If you get a luneshine weapon on your first grind, save and quit. If you get any other weapon, press the guide button on the controller and quit to dashboard (do not save). Reload and repeat. This way you will only require 80 moonstones and no time or effort will be wasted.

    Extra Tip: While collecting the moonstones at Titan Industrial Facility you have a good opportunity to work on shotgun kills, rocket launcher splash damage or any other challenges you might need.

    Hope this helps anyone out there. Cheers
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